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[ELIN Forsch.z.]

In article <1988Mar25.172355.348 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Interrupt routines are almost by definition esoteric, not to mention highly
>machine-specific.

Signal handlers will be at least very similar to interrupt routines. Still it
does not seem to be esoteric to me, if I set a flag in such a handler. And now
please tell me, how to tell the compiler it must not `optimize' the access to
this flag?


		Dietmar Weickert,
			ALCATEL-ELIN Research Center, Vienna, Austria.